The Tea Party Has Collapsed

On 8/6/2010 11:58 AM, Bret Cahill wrote:
>>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/memo-to-the-media-the-tea…
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>>>> August 5, 2010
>>
>>>> Memo To The Media: The Tea Party Movement Has Collapsed
>>
>>>> By Eric Boehlert
>>
>>>> Like rubberneckers on the misinformation highway, let’s slow down and
>>>> gawk at the wreckage from last Saturday’s Tea Party rally in
>>>> Philadelphia.
>>
>>>> Let’s look at the scattered debris and see what it says not only about
>>>> the state of today’s Tea Party movement, but also what clues it
>>>> provides for the political press corps in terms of how it should cover
>>>> the anti-Obama rabble rousers.
>>
>>>> The Saturday event was dubbed Uni-Tea, and was designed to feature
>>>> mostly minority speakers as a way to send a message that not only
>>>> isn’t the Tea Party movement racist, but that it seeks diversity amid
>>>> its ranks.
>>
>>>> Optimistic organizers, who boasted that their website had attracted 2
>>>> million hits during the run-up to the big rally, predicted a crowd of
>>>> 3,000-4,000 people for the Philadelphia event.http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/Teri_Adams_Independenc…
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>>>> And they had every reason to be confident.
>>
>>>> After all, right-wing celebrity Andrew Breitbart, fresh off his
>>>> Shirley Sherrod star turn, was scheduled to speak at the event, which
>>>> was held on a gorgeous summer day in downtown Philadelphia on
>>>> Independence Mall, where throngs of tourists would already be milling
>>>> around.
>>
>>>> So it made sense, as Talking Points Memo reported, that organizers had
>>>> 1,500 bottles of water on ice to hand out for the throngs who
>>>> descended on the rally to cheer the Tea Party message.http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/diversity-is-in-the-eyes-o…
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>>>> But how many people actually showed up last Saturday for the national
>>>> Tea Party rally?
>>
>>>> One local report put the number at 300.http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20100801_Breitbart_joins_tea_par…
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>>>> That’s right, 300, or less than one-tenth of the expected turnout.
>>
>>>> In fact, it’s possible more people showed up in Philadelphia last week
>>>> to commemorate the opening of the new Apple computer store than showed
>>>> up at the nationally promoted Tea Party rally featuring Andrew
>>>> Breitbart.
>>
>>>> Memo to the media: The Tea Party movement has collapsed.
>>
>>>> And its collapse means it’s time for the press to rethink the way it
>>>> covers the political equivalent of the Pet Rock, a fad that appears to
>>>> be in its waning days of popularity.
>>
>>>> I’d suggest that for more than a year the Beltway press has spent far
>>>> too many man-hours obsessively chronicling the conservative Tea
>>>> Partiers.
>>
>>>> Part of that overindulgence has been fueled by the bullying GOP Noise
>>>> Machine, which has demanded around-the-clock Tea Party coverage as
>>>> proof that journalists aren’t liberally biased.
>>
>>>> And part of it has simply been the media’s attraction to a political
>>>> story that was new and rather unorthodox.
>>
>>>> But it’s time to pull the plug, or at least it’s time for the press to
>>>> tell the truth about the Tea Party’s rather sad state of affairs.
>>
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>>>> The Tea Party Has Collapsed. Too bad. It was SO much fun.
>>
>>> What was it all about anyway?
>>
>>> Bret Cahill
>>
>> The Tea Party collapsed just as the election is coming up?
>>
>> To Begin with, there was nothing to collapse, since their is no higher
>> structure to collapse. The “Tea Party” are just a bunch of LOCAL
>> groups, any NATIONAL tea party is NOT tea party at all.
>>
>> There are no central governing points.
>
> Sounds like Libertaria is set to break out! Try to remember the 2nd
> Amend. doesn’t cover spree shootings.

Yes it does, All I need to do is find a GAy Judge in California to agree
with it.